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Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3)
School of Sciences
Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS)
Graduate Program in Computing Science and Engineering
National Autonomous University of Mexico

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and
graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in
biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and
structure prediction.

The conference will address several of the current challenges in
computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling
sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the
genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and
comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6)
inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.

Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be
reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.

VENUE:

AlCoB 2015 will take place in Mexico City, the oldest capital city in the
Americas and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. The venue will
be the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should
be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS
series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will
be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology (Thomson Reuters
2013 impact factor: 1.670) will be later published containing peer-reviewed
substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

Paper submission: March 9, 2015 (23:59 CET) – EXTENDED –
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 10, 2015
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: April 19, 2015
Early registration: April 19, 2015
Late registration: July 21, 2015
Submission to the journal special issue: November 6, 2015

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I would like to draw your attention to a new research associate position at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Lancaster University (with a closing date of March 31, 2015). We are seeking candidates with research interests in Geometric Rigidity Theory who have a recent or expected PhD in Discrete Mathematics.

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The block course is organized by the TU Berlin in cooperation with the
Matheon and the Berlin Mathematical School with support of the
Forschungscampus MODAL and the COST Action TD1207. It is also a summer
school of the
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The Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of The Czech Academy of Sciences
in cooperation with AVAST Software (AVAST) is offering a one-year
fellowship for an outstanding and enthusiastic researcher, PhD holder, from
all over the world, open to cooperation with some of the scientific teams
of the ICS and with AVAST research teams.

The fellowship is of 12 months duration, prolongation is possible.

Starting date: July 1, 2015 or upon agreement, but not later than September
30, 2015.

With best regards,
Diana Piguet
Institute of Computer Science
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
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If you know a colleague who might be interested in submitting an abstract
please feel free to forward this invitation.

The general scope of the stream is the usage of data science methods,
including machine learning and statistics, to improve the effectiveness of
optimisation and metaheuristics, as well as to reduce the time and cost of
producing and maintaining them. The broader aim is to encourage interaction
between optimisation and data science; bringing together researchers and
practitioners from related fields, such as Operational Research (OR),
Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science.

We hope that you are interested in contributing to the stream. If you have
any questions, or wish to organise a session, then please do not hesitate to
contact us. Apologies, if you have received multiple copies of this
announcement.

Best Wishes

Stream Organisers

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The series of MFCS symposia, organized since 1972, has a long and well-established tradition. The MFCS symposia encourage high-quality research in all branches of theoretical computer science. Their broad scope provides an opportunity to bring together researchers who do not usually meet at specialized conferences. Quality papers presenting original research on theoretical aspects of computer science are solicited.

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The Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems is
an international forum for researchers and practitioners working on the design
and development of distributed systems that guarantee specific desired
properties despite adversity, or that are able to restore the desired
properties following adversarial perturbations in the computing medium building
on the principles of self-stabilization.

Research in distributed computing and distributed systems continues its vibrant
development, marked by the importance of dynamic systems, such as peer-to-peer
networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, mobile
agent computing, opportunistic networks etc. Moreover, new applications such as
grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-voting, e-health and robotics,
aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, have joined the
expanded landscape of distributed systems. It is becoming increasingly
important to endow all such systems with built-in means for self-management,
self-protection, and self-repair.

The symposium encourages the submission of original contributions spanning
fundamental research and practical applications within its scope, covered by
the five symposium tracks:

Papers must be prepared using the LNCS style and be electronically submitted
to a specific track in PDF format using EasyChair. Contributions can be
submitted as either Regular Papers or Brief Announcements. Submissions for
regular papers must be no longer than 15 pages (including the title, authors,
abstract, figures, and references) and may have an additional appendix to be
read at the discretion of the Program Committee. Brief announcements are
restricted to two pages with no appendix. Submissions deviating from these
guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits.

If requested by the authors, a regular submission that is not selected for a
regular presentation will also be considered for a brief announcement. This
request must be clearly indicated in the first page of the paper. Such a
request will not affect consideration of the paper as a regular paper. A paper
submitted to SSS 2015 must be an original contribution not previously published
as a regular paper (results previously published as a brief announcement may be
submitted as a regular paper to SSS 2015). No submission may be concurrently
submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal.

The program committee will select two papers for best paper and best student
paper awards. A paper is eligible for the best student paper award if at least
one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of submission. This
must be clearly indicated in the first page of the paper.

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Candidates are sought for two positions of Postdoctoral Research Fellow
in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University. The
University currently has an active combinatorics group which includes
Prof. Nick Wormald, Prof. Ian Wanless, Prof. Graham Farr, A/Prof David
Wood, Dr Daniel Horsley and Dr Kerri Morgan.

The positions are funded via an Australian Laureate Fellowship project
on Analysis of random structures and their applications, held by Nick
Wormald. Experience in random graphs, probabilistic combinatorics,
asymptotic enumeration, or related areas of combinatorics or discrete
probability is required. To be considered you will require a PhD in
discrete mathematics or a related discipline, familiarity with random
graphs, discrete random processes, or asymptotic enumeration, proven
ability to perform collaborative research, and the potential to publish
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27th European Conference on Operational Research
12-15 July 2015, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to give a presentation in the stream

"Humanitarian Applications".

For submission of your abstract please visit the abstract submission
page on the conference web site
(http://www.euro2015.org, submission code: f2bd4255). Abstracts must be
written in English and may
not contain more than 1500 characters.

If you would like to organize a special session, please do not hesitate
to contact us.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Glasgow!

On behalf of the organizers of the track "Humanitarian Applications",

Erik Kropat
Silja Meyer-Nieberg
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

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The main goal of the Stream on "Engineering Optimization" is to bring together
engineers, applied mathematicians and computer scientists working on research,
development and practical application of optimization methods applied to all
engineering disciplines or developing basic techniques in this field.

ABOUT ENGINEERING DESIGN OPTIMIZATION:

Modern design techniques seek for the best design to perform the desired tasks.
Engineering Optimization deals with the optimal design of elements and systems in
all
engineering fields.

Nowadays, use of Design Optimization techniques is rapidly growing in most of
engineering disciplines, like automotive, aeronautical, mechanical, civil, nuclear,
naval, mechanical, electrical, energy and off-shore engineering. This is due to the
increase of technological competition and the development of strong and efficient
techniques for several practical applications.

MDO - Multidisciplinary Design Optimization:

Engineering Systems are increasingly complex and represented by large and
sophisticated
numerical models. They involve several interacting disciplines or are made up of
distinct interacting subsystems that must be considered simultaneously to obtain
efficient designs.

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization is devoted to the design of complex systems
involving interacting subsystems or disciplines. The main scientific challenges of
MDO
are concerned with the development of strong and efficient numerical techniques and
with the computational organization required for the necessary coupling of codes
employed in interacting disciplines.

INVERSE PROBLEMS:

Numerical methods for inverse problems in most of cases are based on optimization
techniques similar to those employed in optimal design. This field, applied in all
engineering disciplines, is of utmost importance for EUROPT conference.

ENGINEERING SIMULATION INVOLVING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES:

Several physical phenomena are naturally represented by an optimization problem.
This
is the case when the "equilibrium" is attained at the minimum of an energy function.
In
several applications, constraints must be satisfied. This is the case of contact
problems is solids mechanics.

BASIC NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES:

Engineering Optimization requires a large set of basic computer tools. This is the
case
of several CAD tools for geometric modeling, engineering analysis methods,
sensitivity
analysis as well as mathematical optimization algorithms.

About Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Optimization:

Modern Engineering Optimization is strongly interdisciplinary in two axes. The need
of
integration of basic and applied techniques and to solve real engineering problems,
requires the cooperation of engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists,
working
on research and practical applications.

We look forward to receive your news very soon and to meet you at Glasgow next July.

With our best regards,

Yours sincerely,

Wolfgang Achtziger, Jose Herskovits and Helder Rodrigues,

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The conference aims to enable researchers build connections betweendifferent digital applications. The event will be held over three days,with presentations delivered by researchers from the internationalcommunity, including presentations from keynote speakers andstate-of-the-art lectures.

The conference welcome papers on the following (but not limited to)research topics:

***Business, and Technology In EducationEducational TechnologyMobile ComputingMobile LearningE-commerce Business ModelsE- LearningDebugging Tools and LearningComputer-aided SystemsEducation In Computational ScienceBusiness Intelligence and Web ServicesFuture Development of E-BusinessE-GovernmentE-Business Applications and Software

All the submitted papers will be reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers.The published proceedings will be indexed in ResearchBib, ProQuest, andGoogle Scholar Databases, in addition they will be submitted for POSSIBLEinclusion within the INSPEC, EI, DBLP, Microsoft Academic Research, andResearchGate. In addition, BEST registered papers will be published in oneof the following special issues provided that the author do majorimprovements and extension within the time frame that will be set by theconference and his/her paper is approved by the chief editor:

International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications(IJNCAA)International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications(IJDIWC)International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF)International Journal of E-Learning and Educational Technologies in theDigital Media (IJEETDM)

LOCATION:

GTMC2015 will be organized by Bemidji State University, Minnesota, USA;cooperation withThe Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). Alltheactivities of the conference will take place in USA.

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1. Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations.2. Papers must be without page numbers3. Papers should be submitted electronically as pdf format withoutauthor(s) name(s).4. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specializedreferees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.5. If you have any problems with the above web submission form, you cansend the manuscript by email to gtmc15@sdiwc.net with subject: GTMC2015 Paper Submission, Please provide following information in your email: Names, complete address details of all authors, email addresses andthe title of the submission. 6. Paper submission link: http://tinyurl.com/lk2ezxr

All the accepted papers will be published in one of the followingproceedings of the conference. In addition, all accepted papers will bepublished in one of the special issues listed in the conference websiteprovided that the author do improvements and extension within the timeframe that will be set by the conference and his/her paper is approved bythe chief editor.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Date Open from now until June 15, 2015Notification of Acceptance 4 weeks from the submission dateCamera Ready Submission Open from now until July 05, 2015Last Day for Registration It is recommended before July 05, 2015Conference Dates July 15 - 17, 2015

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The Instute of Mathematics of Eotvos University Budapest (Hungary) is
organizing again a summer school in Discrete Mathematics for
undergraduate and graduate students between June 8 - 12, 2015. This
year, the topic of the school will be "The legacy of Paul Erdos".

Kristof Berczi
Egervary Research Group
Eotvos University, Budapest
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We are excited to announce the third workshop on BiologicalDistributed Algorithms (BDA). BDA is focused on the relationshipsbetween distributed computing and distributed biological systems andin particular, on analysis and case studies that combine the two. Suchresearch can lead to better understanding of the behavior of thebiological systems while at the same time developing novelcomputational algorithms that can be used to solve distributedcomputing problems.

BDA 2015 will include presentations on distributed algorithms relatedto a variety of biological systems, with special attention tocommunication and coordination in insect colonies (e.g. foraging,navigation, task allocation, construction) and networks in the brain(e.g. learning, decision-making, attention).

===========SUBMISSIONS===========We solicit submissions of extended abstracts describing recent resultsrelevant to biological distributed computing. We especially welcomeextended abstracts describing new insights and / or case studiesregarding the relationship between distributed computing andbiological systems even if these are not fully formed. Since a majorgoal of the workshop is to explore new directions and approaches, weespecially encourage the submission of ongoing work. Selectedcontributors would be asked to present, discuss and defend their workat the workshop. Submissions should be in PDF and include title,author information, and a 4-page extended abstract.

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There is the funding for an EU PhD student with an excellent
Mathematical background to study within the Algorithms & Complexity
group at the University of Edinburgh. The proposed research topic
is below (though there is some flexibility with regard to topic).
The deadline is noon on Friday, 6th March. Please contact me
(Mary Cryan) in the first instance.

Measuring, Counting and Sampling in Polytopes
supervisor: Mary Cryan

The project proposes to study some algorithmic and combinatorial
questions regarding a special class of high-dimensional polytopes
called transportation polytopes - we will be interested in the
diameter of these polytopes, the (number of, and shape of) vertices
of the polytopes, and the number of lattice points inside these
polytopes (the lattice points are also known as contingency tables).
In recent years, there has been a bustle of activity concerning the
diameter of general multi-dimensional polytopes - the big result
being Francisco Santos' counterexample disproving the "Hirsch
conjecture". Despite this, the question of the diameter of
special classes of polytopes remains open, and there is a
possibility (for example) that the class of transportation
polytopes does satisfy that conjecture.

Apart from diameter the question of counting/sampling contingency
tables remains open for the general case, and we would plan to spend
some time re-examining that problem. In that case our concern is in
obtaining polynomial-time algorithms. We may alternatively spend
time considering different counting and sampling questions. Our
early results will influence the later direction of the project.

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The diffusion of lightweight, powerful portable devices, also enriched with a
variety of sensing capabilities, is enabling new ways for users' communication,
and laying the foundation for realizing the ubiquitous networking idea. Acting
either as the main communication mode or as complement to existing mobile
network infrastructures, opportunistic networking can leverage the mobility of
end users and enhance their communication capabilities. The opportunistic
exploitation of extemporary contacts among the users of the network paves the
way to a number of applications but also poses new and challenging problems to
the networking research community. The AOC 2015 workshop aims at serving as a
meeting point for people working in the area and a forum for exchanging ideas,
discussing solutions, and sharing experiences among researchers, professionals,
and application developers, both from industry and academia. As with the
previous eight editions of the AOC workshop series, the scope of this year's
workshop will remain on general issues related to opportunistic networking and
computing. Yet, AOC 2015 will have a primary interest in new directions of
opportunistic communications, such as mobile social networking, autonomous
solutions for smart cities, big data for autonomic and opportunistic systems
service composition techniques, scenarios of co-existence with infrastructure
networks, and insights to their operation coming from other disciplines such as
game theory and cognitive psychology. The workshop will solicit original papers
addressing theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic
communications but also papers describing prototype implementations and
deployments.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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All submissions must describe original research, not published or
currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal.
Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS. You can find
detailed submission instructions at:
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2015/submission.html

Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the IEEE conference template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2015/submission.html

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Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop
and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of
IEEE WoWMoM 2015 and published in the IEEE Digital Library. Workshop organizers
reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop
(e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.

There will be no separate registration for workshop, but one single registration
will cover both conference and workshops participation. At least one author of
each accepted paper is required and present his/her work at the workshop.
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EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UP
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Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible
fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier).

The full-time studentship will cover tuition fees and an annual grant equivalent to that offered by the ESRC – set at £13,996 per annum for 2014/15 for a maximum of three years. UK/EU residence eligibility conditions apply.

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*Application Deadline*

Tuesday 21^st April 2015

*Project Title*

Integrated use of methods to prevent conflict and facilitate communication

*Project details*

Cognition and decision-making are key issues for organizations in periods of institutional change. Data from UK organizations also indicate a rise in workplace conflict during such periods with negative consequences for efficiency and productivity and medium term problems in relation to collaboration to achieve innovation and change-readiness.

This project aims to develop a "network of perception and prevention" applicable to complex organizations, to understand and underline the main (stakeholder defined) problems and to propose actions to prevent conflicts and to facilitate collaboration and communication.

The research design underpinning the project will be action research in a complex company (e.g. large service provider) and include two phases: firstly to analyse, define and formulate problem spaces and secondly to act on them.

In the first phase, problem structuring methods (PSM) and systems approaches will be used with an integration of actor analysis and cognitive mapping methods. This phase allows for a structured description of the problem situation to be presented to the management of the business school. Concepts that had been acquired by means of interviews to key actors will be structured and used to allow choices to be made with regards to suitable and relevant forms of intervention.

In the second phase, the concepts and their relationships will be transformed into multi-criteria decision models (MCDM) with actions, criteria and parameters, in order to elaborate possible (re-) solutions and compare them, and also to identify new aspects and points of views which will improve the model.

*Funding Notes:*This full-time studentship is open to UK/ EU students only and is located in Portsmouth Business School, Hampshire, UK.

*Qualifications:**Applicants will have a good first degree*(minimum 2.1 or equivalent) and a relevant Masters (or equivalent) with elements of management and/or decision analysis and/or system analysis

Potential applicants can find further information on PBS Research and Research Degrees at:

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·a full CV including personal details, qualifications, educational history and, where applicable, any employment or other experience relevant to the application

·contact details for TWO referees able to comment on your academic performance

·a statement of 1,000 (words) outlining the main features of a research design you would propose to meet the stated objectives, identifying the challenges this project might present and discussing how the work will build on or challenge existing research in the above field.

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Monday, February 23, 2015

For its Aviation Academy the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences/Hogeschool van Amsterdam (AUAS/HvA) is looking for an experienced and expert:

Lecturer in Simulation and Operations Research for capacity in the Aviation Sector (0.8 – 1.0 fte)

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The position

The optimum deployment of an aircraft during its entire life cycle is central to the Aviation degree programme curriculum. The three primary themes during this programme are Engineering, Operations and Business. Students learn to approach issues on the basis of the four perspectives of Airport, Airline, Government and Suppliers. As a lecturer at the Aviation Academy you will be responsible for course development and course delivery in the area of Airport Capacity. Teaching activities will be in the use of Simulation and Optimisation techniques for the modelling and simulation of Capacity problems in the aviation industry. For course development and course delivery you will take into account the relationship with other elements of the curriculum.

You will be able to supervise students during the course, in course didactics. You will identify relevant developments in your domain and your field of work and translate these, together with the senior lecturer/researcher and colleagues, into educational programmes and curriculum development within the degree programme.

The Aviation Academy has a comprehensive relation and knowledge network within the aviation sector in the Netherlands and abroad, consisting of companies, government institutions and educational establishments. In the context of research responsibilities you will be maintaining and expanding this network.

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What we are looking for

We are looking for a MSc-level candidate with experience in operations research and knowledge in Discrete-event Simulation and Optimisation. Furthermore the candidate we are looking for must have knowledge of programs such Arena, Simul8, Simio or similar for simulation, linear programming and a programming language. You also have experience with Solver, Excel and Lingo or a similar program for mathematical programming. Experience in the aviation sector is not a requirement but it will be a plus for your application. You have a genuine interest in the operative problems of the aviation industry through the use of simulation and operations research techniques. You also have excellent verbal and written skills in English. Preferably Your MSc. thesis was related to research on the subject of simulation and operations research.

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The department/programme

The Aviation Academy was created to serve the European aviation industry. Our mission is to provide the current and next generation of professionals with the skills they need to meet the international aviation challenges of the next 10 to 15 years. Our three main activities are Education, Practical Research and Peer Networking. The Aviation Academy offers Bachelor of Engineering degrees in Aviation in two variants: Aviation Engineering and Aviation Operations. The Aviation Academy performs practical scientific research around real-world problems in the aviation sector, with the goal of improving and innovating professional practice.

Within the Bachelor of Engineering educational programme we are currently putting together an Aviation Development specialisation, with a focus on the longer-term/long-term developments in the aviation sector, such as airport master planning, airspace developments, influence of new business models and the use of aircraft by airlines and/or adaptations to regulations and social frameworks. Students are trained to become aviation generalists and would eventually seek employment with companies in the aviation sector, but also the consultancy sector or the government.

Within the Aviation Academy the Aviation research programme, in conjunction with the aviation sector, conducts applied research into the optimal development and utilisation of the capacity in the aviation sector. The results of this research will benefit companies in the sector and will be used to enhance the educational programme.

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What we offer

Your work will form part of the Lecturer 3 appointment group. This post is a salary grade 10 post (Collective Labour Agreement for the Higher Professional Education sector). The maximum salary is € 3800,- gross per month for a fulltime appointment and is dependent on qualifications and experience. The post will initially involve a temporary appointment for one year and extension will be dependent on demonstrated suitability for the post and the possibilities for creating a permanent position. The AUAS/HvA has a comprehensive package of benefits, including a generous holiday arrangement and a 13th month. In addition the AUAS/HvA (via the AUAS/HvA Academy) offers excellent study and development opportunities and encourages staff to continue their ongoing professionalization.

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Information

For any questions about this position please contact Geert Boosten, director of education Aviation Academy on 0622450378/g.boosten@hva.nl or Monique Heiligers, program manager Aviation Academy on 0621156174 / m.m.heiligers@hva.nl (not to be used for applications).

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A postdoc position in algorithms and complexity is available at the School
of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The position is funded by the ERC
Consolidator Grant ALUnif (Algorithms and Lower Bounds: A Unified
Approach), held by Rahul Santhanam.

The goal of the project is to use recently discovered connections between
complexity lower bound techniques and algorithmic design and analysis to
design new and improved algorithms for SAT and other NP-complete problems,
as well as to prove new complexity lower bounds.

Candidates should have a strong background in theoretical computer
science, preferably in complexity theory and/or exact algorithms for
NP-hard problems. Candidates should also have a PhD, or be close to
completion of a PhD.

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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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This is an invitation for authors to submit a paper for the above award.

PURPOSE

The purposes of the competition are to:

- recognise outstanding accomplishments in the practice of Operational
Research;
- attract more application-oriented papers to EURO-k Conferences;
- promote the practice of Operational Research in general.

GUIDELINES

All interested authors are invited to submit a detailed description of an
application of Operational Research which has original features, whether in
methodology, application or implementation. This may be in the form of a
paper written for publication (although not necessarily published at the
time of submission), a client report, or other appropriate documentation.
The documentation must describe the work in a way which illustrates how it
meets the criteria outlined below. The age limit for published papers is
four years. The work must not have been submitted concurrently to another
competition. The application is open to Operational Research specialists
from any part of the world.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The criteria for the evaluation of the papers are:

-scientific quality;
-relevance to Operational Research;
-originality in methodology, implementations and/ or field of application;
-a real impact on practice;
-appreciation by the organisation involved with the application.

Letters of appreciation are important.

THE PROCESS

The jury selects a short-list of finalists who will present their work in a
special session of the 2015 EURO-k Conference in Glasgow. There is no
registration fee for one author of each of the finalist presentations. The
winner will be determined by the jury at the end of the special session and
will be announced by the chair of the jury during the closing session of
the EURO-k Conference.

THE PRIZE

The prize for the winners is a distinct honour, and in material terms
consists of:

-a certificate of excellence in OR practice for each author of the paper;
-an amount of EURO 3,000 shared between the authors.

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Following the successes of the series of Cluster conferences, for 2015
we solicit high-quality original papers presenting work that advances
the state-of-the-art in clusters and closely related fields. All
papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed for their originality,
technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the
conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly
demonstrate research contributions and novelty, while papers reporting
experience must clearly describe lessons learned and impact, along
with the utility of the approach compared to the ones in the past.

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format.
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may
not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables
and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings.
Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without
review. Authors should make sure that their file will print on a
printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language
of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and
will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to
the conference attendees.

Paper submissions are limited to 10 pages in 2-column IEEE format
including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding
this limit will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready
version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at
the following rates: 200 USD for each of two additional pages. See
formatting templates for details:

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is
not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers
not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and
further action may be taken, including (but not limited to)
notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and
sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date,
exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be
considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more
information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE
Computer Society Conference Publishing Services.

The best papers of Cluster 2015 will be included in a Special Issue on
advances in topics related to cluster computing of the Elsevier
International Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Pavan
Balaji, Satoshi Matsuoka, and Michela Taufer. This special issue is
dedicated for the papers accepted in the Cluster 2015 conference. The
submission to this special issue is by invitation only.

MATCH-UP 2015 is the third workshop in the series of interdisciplinary and
international workshops on matching under preferences. The first in the
series took place in Reykjavik in 2008, whilst the second took place in
Budapest in 2012.

*** The full programme has now been published ***
*** The early registration deadline is 12 March ***
*** We are still accepting submissions for the poster session ***

Background
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Matching problems with preferences occur in widespread applications such
as the assignment of school-leavers to universities, junior doctors to
hospitals, students to campus housing, children to schools, kidney
transplant patients to donors and so on. The common thread is that
individuals have preference lists over the possible outcomes and the task
is to find a matching of the participants that is in some sense optimal
with respect to these preferences.

The remit of this workshop is to explore matching problems with
preferences from the perspective of algorithms and complexity, discrete
mathematics, combinatorial optimization, game theory, mechanism design
and economics, and thus a key objective is to bring together the research
communities of the related areas.

List of topics
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The matching problems under consideration include, but are not limited to:

Registration
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Registration for MATCH-UP 2015 is now open. Registration covers entrance
to the technical sessions, workshop proceedings, coffee breaks, lunches
on Thursday 16 April, Friday 17 April and Saturday 18 April, and the
workshop dinner on Friday 17 April. The early bird registration fees
are £275 for full fee and £200 for students, and the early registration
deadline is 12 March 2015. To register, follow this link:
http://www.optimalmatching.com/MATCHUP2015/registration.html.

Poster session
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We are running a poster session at the workshop from 1800-1930 on Thursday
16 April. We are seeking titles and short abstracts of posters to be
presented at this session. Poster abstracts will not be reviewed; we will
simply determine whether they are relevant to the workshop. Relevant
abstracts will be accepted on a first-come first-served until our capacity
is reached. Instructions for submitting poster abstracts can be found here:
http://www.optimalmatching.com/MATCHUP2015/submissions.html. We will
continue to accept poster submissions until shortly before the workshop
(capacity permitting), but in order for abstracts to appear in the workshop
proceedings, they must be received by Monday 2 March.

Sponsorship
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We gratefully acknowledge financial support from SICSA (The Scottish
Informatics and Computer Science Alliance). MATCH-UP 2015 is organised
in cooperation with COST Action IC1205 on Computational Social Choice.

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